Jack Rooke

About this episode

Jessie Ware chats with award-winning comedy writer Jack Rooke about his career, personal experiences with grief, and his upcoming comedy tour.

We are so happy to be joined by award winning comedy writer Jack Rooke on the podcast this week! Fresh from his BAFTA win for his beautiful comedy series ‘Big Boys’ (and still suffering from a 2 day hangover), Jack joined us for brunch to celebrate the occasion. Jack is in the midst of preparing for the return of his comedy show ‘Good Grief’, and we talked about how comedy helped him with the loss of his dad when he was a teen. We also covered meeting Celie Imrie, rating gifted lasagnes, his love of working in Paris, his dream of Christmas dinner & thanksgiving merged into one meal, and we even get a confession involving Jessie’s mobile number! What a total delight to chat with the fabulous Jack, good luck with the tour! ‘Good Grief’ is touring the UK from August to October, tickets on sale now. Listen & watch Table Manners here - https://tablemanners.komi.io/ Follow Table Manners on: Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/tablemannerspodcast/ TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@tablemannerspodcast Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/tablemannerspodcast YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@TableMannersPodcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

People in this episode

Host: Jessie Ware

Guest: Jack Rooke

Topics covered

• comedy
• grief
• brunch
• BAFTA
• touring
• family

Keywords

• Jack Rooke
• comedy
• Big Boys
• Good Grief
• BAFTA
• grief
• brunch

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Big Boys, Good Grief

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